Starting off with Camera Raw

In this chapter, we'll be doing a workflow project from start to finish.…And here, I'll begin with this portrait,…titled Jessica.dng as it appears straight out of the camera.…We'll begin by opening up in Camera Raw.…Here, we'll crop the image and apply some adjustments.…Then we'll jump over to Photoshop in order to finish this off and…to use some blur effects in order to clarify our vision for this image.…All right.…Well, let's start by double-clicking the file to open it up in Camera Raw.…Go to Bridge, select the file,…then double-click it, and that will launch the image in Camera Raw.…

This is a photograph that I captured of a friend in…this old barn up along the California coast.…And what I want to do is clarify my vision and…my, my voice that I want to have in this photograph.…One of the distracting elements is this part of the barn here, so…I want to crop a little bit of that out.…You can find the Crop tool up here in the Tools panel, tap the C key or…just click on the tool, and then click and drag over the image to create a crop area.…

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9/17/2014

Expand your thinking beyond Gaussian Blur. The new set of creative blurring tools in Photoshop CC 2014 allows you to take your photography and digital art to new heights. In this course, photographer and educator Chris Orwig shows how to use the filters in the Blur Gallery (including Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, and more) in creative projects like these:

Adding movement and energy to photos

Creating illustrations

Enhancing portraits

Building a book cover with typography and blur

Improving color

Crafting an ethereal look

So grab your copy of Photoshop CC and get started taking your imagery to a new creative level.